public school

noun, Cdn (Ont.) a school that is part of the public school system my high school was a public school; an elementary school that is part of the public school system: went to Woodside Public School; elementary schooling in the public school system: when I was in public school (COD)

“When our kids were in school, we managed to get the Catholic school and the public school together.”

“Maybe they need a public school for all the kids, and then Sunday school if you want religion.”

“Then they built the new school, the new public school. I was in grade five or six when we moved up there, eh.”

“Right there where they built the house there, that’s where the old public school was. And then on the side of the old public school was the continuation school, on the back side.”

“How many students would be in the school?”
“I think in the public school there was around thirty. There was eight grades, one to eight, and then you went over to continuation school, which was nine and ten.”

“They were there from all the schools on the Island, the separate school and the public schools.”
“They would all come together for the continuation [school].”

“You probably seen me playing ball at the old public school there, up to bat or pitching or whatever.”

“They have no- not enough room in the public school for their gym and stuff, so they all come up here every day.”

“Wolfe Island only had that one little public school, so all of our kids went to town for grades seven and eight, but by then they already knew kids from sports and things like that.”

“They all went to school up there, public school, when Sarah and I lived at the other place.”

“That was handed over to the separate school.”
“Yeah, there was a public school there first, and then the neighbourhood got all Catholic.”